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Jay Welsh – The Four Horsemen (“Looking at this war, grace, fear, light, a slow world of aggression, down to the lowest configuration. A test of light will be upon us, to the eyes of retribution. For you to cast a shadow, you must first find the light.” I think)

Noisia & Mayhem – Moonway Renegade

TRG – Time is Now:

“To those frustrated with their marginal existence,
to those fighting in the fringes of society,
to those who have not yet been morally corrupted,
to those who are not ready to accept defeat,
we transmit: your time is now.”

“[There are times, Katarina, when I find myself] transfixed by a shadow on the wall, [or the splashing of water against a stone]. I stare at it, [the hours pass,] the world around me drops away, replaced by worlds being created and destroyed by my imagination.”

Exocet – Demon Seed

Apocalypse Now

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Future Engineers – Eden

John Locke, Lost, episode 5 “White Rabbit”

“I’m not a big believer in magic. But this place is different. It’s special. The others don’t want to talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it … I’ve looked into the eye of this island. And what I saw was beautiful.” (Also: “What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?”, unspecified episode.)

Implex – Pi

Maximillian Cohen in Pi (1998)

“… One, mathematics is the language of nature. Two, everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three, if you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.” / “You see, there’s math everywhere.” / “The number is nothing! It’s the meaning, the syntax. It’s between the numbers. If you haven’t understood it, it’s because it’s not for you.” (This movie is consistently mistranscribed, and I have tried to transcribe it as accurately as I can in spite of the actor’s imprecise diction.)

“When you see a launch from the outside, it’s a rather glorious, magnificent thing. Inside, it’s the absolute opposite of that. It’s 137 decibels. It’s shaking. Everything is shaking.”

Mav – Northern Lights

Professor Quatermass in Quatermass 2

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Mav – Scientific Way

David Filby in The Time Machine (1960)

“George, I speak to you as a friend, more, as a brother: if that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it. Destroy it George, before it destroys you!”

Mav & Implex – Chasm

Solaris (2002?)

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The Militia – 1999

Class of 1999 (1990)

“The year is 1999. The gang controlled areas have become known as Free-Fire Zones. The police will not enter. There is no law.” [1]

Motive One – Life

Han in Enter the Dragon (1973)

“We are all ready to win, just as we are born knowing only life.”

Om Unit – Sleepwalkers

Bearded Man in They Live (1988)

“Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially-induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain. That is their primary method of survival: to keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.”

Pendulum vs the Freestylers – Fasten Your Seatbelt

Dr Otto Octavius (Dr Octopus) in Spider-Man 2 (2004)

“Ladies and gentleman, fasten your seatbelts.”

Photek – U.F.O.

Rendlesham Forest UFO: Col. Halt’s tape (1980)

“There is no doubt about it – there is some type of strange flashing red light ahead.” “It’s yellow” / “Right on this position here. Straight ahead, in between the trees – there it is again. Watch – straight ahead, off my flashlight there, sir. There it is.” etc.

Pleasure – Utopia

The alien, in Contact (1997)

“You’re an interesting species. … You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. … [The] only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

Probe One – Orion

Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982)

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

Probe-One – Strata [Cartridge remix]

Gaff in Blade Runner (1982)

“It’s too bad she won’t live! But then again, who does?”

Raiden – Infection [E-Sassin remix]

Red Queen in Resident Evil (2002)

“One of the Hive’s early experiments, produced by injecting the T-virus directly into living tissue. The results were unstable.” / “Now that it has fed on fresh DNA, it will mutate, becoming a stronger, faster hunter.” / “I didn’t think any of you would make it this far. Not without infection.” / “You’re all going to die down here.”

Shakka & Diamond – Word of God

Maximillian Cohen in Pi (1998)

“… the number in my head is the true name of God?” (Preceding lines can be heard faintly, including Rabbi Cohen saying “216 letters long”)

Rabbi Cohen in Pi (1998)

“… and with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret.”

Stray – Silver From the Sky

Philippe Petit in Man On Wire (2008)

“… and suddenly, I freeze … and I see something magnificent, something that inspire me … Now, I need to have that, this little tangible, uh, start of my dream, but everybody is watching, and but I need that page, and so what I do is under the cover of sneeze … I tear the page, put it under my jacket, and go out. Now, of course I would have a toothache for a week, but what’s the pain in comparison that now I have acquired my dream.”

Total Science – Where Are We

Maximillian Cohen in Pi (1998)

“9:13, personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six I did.” (There is another indistinct speech sample at 3:16 that cannot be positively traced back to the film.)

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Aria – Dido [Armin van Buuren’s Universal Religion mix]

NASA ground control crewman Cecil B. de Stafford, Apollo 7 (1968)

“Yeah… some of the reproductions here are real good, I can look out through Wally’s rendezvous window” etc. (More details)

Bamboo Forest – Backspace

Logan’s Run (1976) (based on the transcript)

“Sit facing the screen” / “The question has been answered” / “That is the name of the object”

Imperative Reaction – Compressed/Terror

1) Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979)

“Horror and moral terror are your friends.”

2) Mick Travis in if.... (1968)

“One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.”

3) Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

“This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.”

4) Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981)

“Tina! Bring me the axe!”

Man With No Name – Own the World

Blanche Walters in The Devil Commands (1941)

“If you can do what you’re trying to do, you’ll own the world. You know that, don’t you?”

Donna Hayward: “Do you think that if you were falling in space, that you would slow down after a while, or go faster and faster?” / Laura Palmer: “Faster and faster, and for a long time you wouldn’t feel anything, and then you’d burst into fire, forever.”

Solar Stone – Solarcoaster

Alabama Whitman in True Romance (1993)

“I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true. That three words went through my mind endlessly. Repeating themselves like a broken record. You’re so cool. You’re so cool. You’re so cool.”

Thomas P. Heckmann & Marc Romboy – Ultra Vixens

The narrator from Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)

“Smalltown, USA. Average people. Ordinary people. The folks next door. Walk down any street, knock on any door, and who will you meet? Your neighbors. That’s what it’s all about. Friendly people, getting to know one another, pulling together for the mutual good. At work and at play, giving new meanings to the word ‘democracy’. People like Mr. Peterbuilt, a man for the name born. His obsession: garbage. His profession: sanitary engineer. His avocation …”

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12th Street – Brain Damage

Jip in Human Traffic (1999)

“Present is gone. Fantasy is a part of reality, and we take the brakes off. We’re thinking clearly yet not thinking at all. And this feels right. We stop trying to control things. Warm rush of chemicals through us. We’re fluctuating. Is this brain damage? We forget all the pain and the hurt in life. We want to go somewhere else. We’re not threatened by people anymore. All our insecurities have evaporated. We’re in the clouds now, wide open. We’re spacemen, orbiting the Earth. Yeah, the world looks beautiful from here, man. We’re nympholeptics, desiring for the unobtainable. We risk sanity for moments of temporary enlightenment. So many ideas, so little memory. The last thought killed by anticipation of the next. We embrace an overwhelming feeling of love. We flow in unison. We’re together. … We wave goodbye.”

Jamez presents Tatoine – Music [Da Lounge mix]

1) Theodore Arroway in Contact (1997)

“But I guess I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.”

2) Palmer Joss in Contact (1997)

“We shop at home, we surf the Web…but at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history. We’re becoming a synthesized society.”

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Quivver – Space Manoeuvres Part 3

Dr. Schreber in Dark City (1998)

“First there was darkness. Then came the strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology. The ability to alter physical reality … They called this ability ‘Tuning’.”